Giorgos Vavouranakis was born in Athens in 1972. He holds a BA from the Department of history and Archaeology of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (1994). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of Sheffield (1998, 2002). He has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (2003-2005), and as adjunct faculty at the Universities of Crete (2004-2005) and the Peloponnese (2007-2009) and the Helenic Open University (2007-today). He has also worked as a contract archaeologist at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (2007-2008, 2011). In 2012, he was appointed Lecturer in «Prehistoric Aegean: Theoretical Archaeology» at the Department of History and Archaeology of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2012. In 2014 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the same Department.